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Reviewer: Kristine Gotham Walking into the theater last night, I was thrilled to see all the people.  The lobby was filled with people picking up tickets, buying snacks and moving toward the theater, ready for a performance of Ramona Quimby.  There were friends and family milling about, chatting with each other about their loved one, and carrying flowers to be presented to the aforementioned loved one at the end of the show.  The anticipation was palpable, and the show did not […]

Reviewer: Kristine Gotham Have you ever watched a Christmas movie and just…peed your pants from laughing so hard?!!  No?  Well, then, you haven’t watched Pit and Balcony’s production of Don Zolidis’, The Holiday Channel Christmas Movie Wonderthon.  Six different Christmas movies all rolled into one production and presented in two hours of side splitting comedy and the traditional formula Christmas movie that we all know and love from that Christmas channel. Wesley Cook and Elijah Feinauer do an amazing job in their roles of […]

Reviewer: Beth Detloff Pit and Balcony Theatre opens season ninety-one with a bang, or should I say a lightning bolt from the gods! The Lightning Thief: The Percy Jackson Musical is adapted from a book by Rick Riordan. As a steadfast read the book first enthusiast, I quickly downloaded the ten hour read. What is an action packed story is transformed by the Theatre’s cast, crew, and music ensemble. The dialogue is full of don’t blink or you might miss it well placed […]

Reviewer: Denyse Shannon Twenty years ago, when the play was written, the world was a different place for people facing up to their sexuality. All these years later, same-sex marriage is legal, the LGBTQ movement has marched past the doors of discrimination, and the storyline of Bare: A Pop Opera seems like lightyears in the past. Premiering Saturday, May 14th at Pit & Balcony, the musical is billed as the story of teenaged angst. There’s a smattering of the typical, from the guy who […]

Reviewer: Mark DeWolf-Ott The Greek Mythology Olympiaganza, written by Don Zolidis, is an adaption of some of the most popular ancient Greek myths. You might think “how boring.” With this youthful energetic cast, it’s anything but boring! It’s playing this and next weekend at the Pit and Balcony, Saginaw. Showing in the evening on Saturday and the afternoon on Sunday. Two arguing narrators attempt to cover all Greek mythology using audience participation, cross gender acting, and general theatrical absurdity, in […]